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OpenAI text-embedding-3-large

OpenAI's largest embedding model. 3072 dimensions, multilingual, and the default high-quality option for RAG and semantic search.

Modality
Embeddings
License
Proprietary (Proprietary)
Context window
8,191 tokens
Released
January 25, 2024
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Runs locally
No

Strengths

  • Top-tier retrieval quality on MTEB
  • Multilingual
  • Adjustable output dimensions for cost/quality trade-off

Weaknesses

  • Closed weights
  • API-only — no offline use

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OpenAI API hosted-api API key required
Azure OpenAI hosted-api Enterprise / regional

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Version history

  1. OpenAI text-embedding-3-large Jan 2024 Current
  2. OpenAI text-embedding-3-small Jan 2024

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Change log

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